Book Promotion Strategy - Book Industry Reviews : Part One
What Are Pre-Pub Book Industry Reviews? How To Get Them & Are They Worth It?
Book Industry Reviews - Part One
My upcoming book, Get Your Book Seen and Sold: a complete book marketing and publishing guide (written with co-author, Julie Murkette, launches as a trade paperback and as an ebook on September 22, 2023. We can’t wait to get the book in the hands of authors!
The pub date is essentially FIVE months away.
In this edition of Countdown to Book Launch Diary I cover our Pre-Publication Book Industry Review Outreach.
If you search for any book on Amazon you will notice many quoted endorsements on the book’s page. For example, here are the endorsements on the Amazon book page for More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez (a book I just reviewed for ArtsNewsNow.com)
You can see on the image above that there are review quotes from:
Library Journal, Bookpage, Kirkus, BookList
These are all examples of Book Industry Reviewers
This past week Julie, my co-author, and I reviewed our detailed book marketing plan for Get Your Book Seen and Sold. We decided to press the button on a pre-publication outreach to book industry reviewers.
A book marketing plan is simply all the tasks you have decided to do to promote your book.
Note: Julie and I developed a book marketing plan in Jan 2023 - nine months in advance of publication. For reference, our manuscript was completed in August 2022 and Julie has been editing and formatting the book since. As I often write in my posts on Substack, I have been thinking about and keeping notes on book marketing before during and after the writing of the manuscript. If you are keeping track, the manuscript was finished eleven months ago and we decided to wait to publish until September 2023 to take advantage of some book marketing strategies.
Book Industry Reviews - Strategy #1
What is a Book Industry Review?
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